Israel, Hamas Trade Fire Despite Truce Talk

A diplomatic push to end Israel's nearly weeklong offensive in the Gaza Strip gained momentum Tuesday. Matt Bradley has details on The News Hub. Photo: AP.

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... the the ... all I last said it's nearing these say supply ... deal ... to prevent into soaring to a halt hostilities around Gaza and Israel wiggle man Brett Lee joining us from Gaza City to tells all about this man thanks for being map ... we'll do now ... why Gaza City in the negotiations are happening in Cairo but my understanding of what's happening is that everybody was ... was waiting to hear about a peace treaty ... or some kind of ceasefire ... um and in the next day it started around nine o'clock in the actual tree hints of further interest so it's around midnight ... and what happened was ... everybody seemed to back down ... it looked as though Hamas ... Meyer said that they were going a step away from that because their terms for us ... ok ... and does not mean we continuing to see ... aam broke its being fined both ways and and and showing it ... across the border between Israel and Gaza ... well I certainly during the Israeli Navy off the coast however in the Gaza Strip and I was about two hours ago ... when I heard was just extensive gunfire from ships that adopt all this Mediterranean on clay ... and they were really that are in the Gaza Strip ... when you're trying to get some final shots in before the the ceasefire ... now it seems was cited possibly because we've all been told ... that his policies buyer will be happening ... and interesting ... bits of signs when we told the ceasefire is happening now than it would subside if it if it was happening ... now will what role do we know how to reply so far she making any headway ... on behind the scenes ... we don't know anything about what she's been doing a medical he or she just arrived in Cairo so software clear about what's what ... she's up to ... we don't have the inside track serving the ongoing negotiations but from what I Anderson from Hamas officials I spoke with today ... Bantam Press ... that Hillary Clinton is going to be going to Cairo ... and coming to the region in traveling around ... they don't see her as ... Ms even as his administration ... as a negotiator that they have for us to they see them at the Hess's advocates for Israel ... and ... there be no reason for them to to act as though Hillary Clinton's visit is going to be a game changer for my perspective ... team of the United Nations aam is this is a managing to help ... its smooth and intentions ... but I don't know I don't think that drinking would be sitting in direct role in the negotiations with a seaweed to do that probably means in on what to do that right now ... across the center of the negotiations falls right on into two is well placed ... more than any other country in the region perhaps ... to negotiate between ... Israel and Egypt peace treaty ... there are lots of losses ... as a chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood ... and so ... on the Indian Ocean presidents who really comes from the Muslim Brotherhood ... is really ideally placed ... to the between these two groups ... so I think at that time now some stuff going on and then leases a little outside the customer and that that's a step she ... aam ... it's a good time he's prime menace to the Ghana is his calling as as well a terrorist a back copy helping matters cannot ... probably not but ... but it ... is that everyone has a long history of accusing the ... Israeli government so really bearing down on the Gazan people ... and us ... that was extraordinary back into thousandeight when he famously walked walked off the stage and Dom was ... with them is really to show lobbyists for the official was talking during ... the strikes on the Gaza Strip into thousandeight that ended in the deaths of fourteen hundred people mostly civilians ... so this is the new rhetoric from Turkey ... in that argument is one of them all thank you Brian much man grappling ... with a